Re: Local port 25 Doesn't Work.... but 26 does. Any idea?

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From: Ken Schaefer (kenREMOVE_at_THISadOpenStatic.com)
Date: 09/14/04 

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 11:30:44 +1000

Have you got some kind of firewall or similar running?

Cheers
Ken

"Chris" <cmay@walshgroup.com> wrote in message
news:44f6e099.0409130900.5e61f92e@posting.google.com...
>I am messing around with setting up the default SMTP server on my
> WinXP Pro machine.
>
> I have the SMTP setup like this:
>
> IP Address TCP Port
> (All Unassigned) 25
> (All Unassigned) 26
>
> telnet localhost 25
> Connecting To localhost...Could not open connection to the host, on
> port 25: Con
> nect failed
>
> telnet localhost 26
> 220 computername Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.2600.218
> 0 ready at Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:51:52 -0500
>
>
> I thought that maybe some other service was using port 25, so I did a
> "netstat -an" which showed:
> Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
> TCP 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
> TCP 0.0.0.0:26 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
>
> I then stopped the SMTP Service through IIS, and both of those entries
> went away.
>
>
> Can anyone think of why this would be not working right? I am lost.
>
> Can anyone think of why I can't get it to work on the default port?

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